MAGA’s latest culture war target, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, is “grandiose and superficial,” according to a world-renowned scholar on the Greek poem. “Rather than disagreeing with interpretations of Homer in a collegial manner, this person, who has benefited enormously from Nolan’s film, speaks in the crude language of MAGA folks attacking someone with ideas that differ from hers,” Oates continued. The filmmaker told Empire in November that his version of the titular character Odysseus was inspired by “the Emily Wilson translation that begins, ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’” Nolan said that Wilson’s translation captured “the genius of the character, the cleverness, the inventiveness of him, that was a huge part of what interested me. Oates said Wilson's review echoed the tone of "MAGA folks."